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June 19, 2001 By Susan C. Strong

Fair Trade Media Wedge Workshop Results

YOUR PICKS OF THE BEST TWEAKS

Fast Track railroads workers.
There is no FREE trade.
Free trade is never free.
Free trade means free labor.
Fast Track muzzles Congress.
Fast Track=crime in the suites.
Free trade — Wall Street’s drug of choice. Stop the addiction!
Fast Track is the wrong track.
Derail Fast Track.
Free trade is just another phrase for nothing left to lose.
FTAA gon get yo mama.

SOME AFTER THOUGHT TWEAKS:

Keep America Free. Stop Fast Track. (or stop FTAA, reverse NAFTA, shrink the WTO, curb the World Bank etc.)

Stop the corporate Free Lunch-stop FTAA, reverse NAFTA, shrink the WTO, curb the World Bank etc.)

Free Trade (or Fast Track etc.) is an UnAmerican Activity.

unAmerican treaty rules

unAmerican treaties

unAmerican rules or unAmerican Trade Rules or Loan Rules

FAVORED TWEAKS THAT NEED MORE WORK:

Corporate trade is the new slave trade. . .
Why do immigrants cross to California? It’s not the cheese. . . ———, it’s the cheese
Free trade is too much (name of a popular laxative?) for the Constitution. . .
Fast Track to powerlessness. . .
More global corporations, more local struggle. . .
Revitalization = colonialism in our inner cities

NEW HOOKS SUGGESTED BY THIS WORKSHOP:

terrorism
energy issues
drug trafficking
scandals
HMO and health care problems
disasters and extreme weather
dog bites
movie stars
sex and sex trafficking

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